143 Adria

143 Adria
Discovery[1]
Discovered by J. Palisa
Discovery site Austrian Naval Obs.
Discovery date 23 February 1875
Designations
MPC designation (143) Adria
Pronunciation /ˈdriə/
Named after
Adriatic Sea
1960 WK1
main-belt[1][2] · (middle)
background[3]
Orbital characteristics[2]
Epoch 23 March 2018 (JD 2458200.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 138.03 yr (50,415 d)
Aphelion 2.9688 AU
Perihelion 2.5557 AU
2.7622 AU
Eccentricity 0.0748
4.59 yr (1,677 d)
354.65°
 12m 52.92s / day
Inclination 11.442°
333.04°
252.89°
Physical characteristics
Mean diameter
89.93±1.9 km
Mass 7.6×1017 kg
22.005 h (0.9169 d)[2][4]
0.0491±0.002
C
9.12

    143 Adria is a fairly large main-belt asteroid that was discovered by Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa on 23 February 1875, at the Austrian Naval Observatory, and named after the Adriatic Sea, on the coast of which the discovery was made. This dark-coloured asteroid has probably a primitive carbonaceous chondritic composition.

    One occultation by Adria has been reported so far, from Japan on August 21, 2000. A somewhat spherical shape measuring 98 × 86 km was observed.

    Photometric observations of this asteroid made during 2008 at the Organ Mesa Observatory in Las Cruces, New Mexico gave an irregular light curve with a period of 22.005 ± 0.001 hours and a brightness variation of 0.08 ± 0.01 in magnitude.[4]

    References

    1. 1 2 "143 Adria". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
    2. 1 2 3 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 143 Adria" (2018-04-25 last obs.). Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
    3. "Asteroid 143 Adria". Small Bodies Data Ferret. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
    4. 1 2 Pilcher, Frederick (September 2008). "Period Determinations for 26 Proserpina, 34 Circe 74 Galatea, 143 Adria, 272 Antonia, 419 Aurelia, and 557 Violetta". The Minor Planet Bulletin. 35 (3): 135–138. Bibcode:2008MPBu...35..135P. ISSN 1052-8091. Retrieved 29 May 2018.

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